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Thanks to the headscratchers at Videohelp making this thread, we now know that Youtube now offers a higher quality version of most videos - even ones uploaded years ago! Apparently Youtube keeps the original video, and encodes the said video into 300-400kbps H264 & 96-128kbps AAC-LC in an MP4.

OH, THE STEREO AAC AND H264 QUALITY! Ignore the fact that the Baldr Force background is pixelated; it was originally in the upload. (oh the detailed artifacts! ) Concentrate on the interface such as the score and onscreen text.

This is the Greasemonkey script that contains the "Switch to higher quality" and download link as shown in the screenshot.

The downsides are that the encoders have to let Youtube do the crappy standard video encoding for a bad first impression, the HQ video doesn't appear for a long while afterwards (at peak Euro + American hours for hours, at 10PM EST maybe 10 minutes), and the video doesn't appear on your channel until the fmt=18 video encodes.

Now that we in the HD upload community finally can say "Yay, now we don't have to hex edit the FLV length anymore or encode in FLV and 22.05khz MP3s!", discuss.

i guess.. most people would migrate to megavideo or veoh. frankly speaking the only thing i can think of that keeps (kept) youtube going was the fact that everyone knows about it, and the gigantic amount of videos it already had. but once people realized there were several better quality sites it makes sense that they would migrate. besides, youtubes had the same quality videos for long enough, its about damn time they did this

Thanks to the headscratchers at Videohelp making this thread, we now know that Youtube now offers a higher quality version of most videos - even ones uploaded years ago! Apparently Youtube keeps the original video, and encodes the said video into 300-400kbps H264 & 96-128kbps AAC-LC in an MP4.

OH, THE STEREO AAC AND H264 QUALITY! Ignore the fact that the Baldr Force background is pixelated; it was originally in the upload. (oh the detailed artifacts! ) Concentrate on the interface such as the score and onscreen text.

This is the Greasemonkey script that contains the "Switch to higher quality" and download link as shown in the screenshot.

The downsides are that the encoders have to let Youtube do the crappy standard video encoding for a bad first impression, the HQ video doesn't appear for a long while afterwards (at peak Euro + American hours for hours, at 10PM EST maybe 10 minutes), and the video doesn't appear on your channel until the fmt=18 video encodes.

Now that we in the HD upload community finally can say "Yay, now we don't have to hex edit the FLV length anymore or encode in FLV and 22.05khz MP3s!", discuss.